The smell of brewing coffee filled the air as Mark sat on his balcony, overlooking the street. He’d just finished his morning run, his muscles aching with a pleasant fatigue. The sound of hammering from the neighbors' house was a distant rhythm.

He leaned back in his chair, taking in the scene. The sun was rising, painting the sky in vibrant hues of orange and pink. He sipped his coffee, savoring the warmth that spread through his body.

The world seemed to slow down. He felt a calmness settle within him, a certainty that this day would unfold as it should.

Emotion: at ease

Cluster: Calm / Serenity
PC1 (Valence): 2.84 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -2.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion at ease. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 at ease stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the at ease emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the at ease vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
disfrut0.437
enjoyed0.395
affectionately0.392
прият0.388
😊0.388
Suppressed:
S-0.496
L-0.449
C-0.420
vom-0.378
😣-0.370